>buy in-game ship for 25k $>get wiped, no refundsSomehow, there are still people wasting money on this scam.
>Headline screenshot thread
>>738883191What else would be more appropriate, link? People don't like those.
>>738883043>CURRENT YEAR>still in alpha
>>738883043You know the drill>YFW you didn't fall for Scam Citizen
>paying for alphas
If you’re still on star citizen at this point, you’re in it for the ‘getting scammed’ intentionally.
had a billion credits and over a billion credits in bought ships, doesn't matter didnt farm anything people were giving away in chat billions every day. money was a joke
>>738883378It prints money, why would they ever go out of alpha?
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>>738883043>>738883548Are you stupid?In-game economy has been wiped a dozen times by now.Every time they do a big enough update and need to see how the player-side develops from scratch, they wipe the economy.That's also when they go to target anyone that was having too much fun with money-dupes as part of a mass ban.
>DNF still gets grief for being in dev hell despite ultimately releasing a (mostly) finished product>shart citizen gets a free pass somehowGamer trash, explain yourselves.
>>738883698Most of the money printed went into squadron 42 and back into trying to get their absurd dream of sharding to work exactly the way they want it do.If they manage to get it working, they just need to scale up the size of the servers and players will naturally come because they are the only people doing this stuff on an MMO scale.And for every 100 or 1000 players with a brain that won't waste money on anything but the upfront price.there will be another WHALE.A GLORIOUS whale that will spend tens of thousands of dollars if not hundreds of thousands on in-game items.
>>738883280You're supposed to post an archive link, come on nigga, is this your first day?
We'll all be dead before this game finished development
>>738883043Interesting how your screenshot didn't say that irl purchases are included, you did read what you posted at least right? Or is this just low effort posting no different than reddit or twitter threads?
Genuine question. But who the hell plays star citizen? I've never seen anyone admit they do. How the hell is the game still afloat with all the bad rap?
this is a cult run by a l ron hubbard like figure, right?
>POST YFW
>>738885193Ive paid over the course of a decade and haven't spent anything in the last 4 years or maybe more.
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>>738885032We'll have actual interstellar travel before this game is released
>>738885225To be fair, Chris did an even better job. He never had have to pull a whole religion out of his ass to turn people into cultist lunatics and milk them for their money.
>>738885193I do periodically, it can be pretty fun with all the different situations that can emerge. Can also be excruciatingly boring, really just depends on what you're doing and with who. But I think it's unparalleled in its ability to immerse you in its world, which is something that no modern MMO has been able to achieve (for me). Anyway thanks for letting me know about the update OP, reinstalling now.
>>738885316>>738885976It's not even that much money in the grand scheme of things, especially spread out over 10 years
>>738883043It should be a scientific study on what goes on in the heads of people that still adamantly support that game.
>>738885976>>738885316I won't dispute that spending 4k on pixels is cucked but you can have just as good an experience for $30>>738886250It's fun
i just wish elite dangerous, x4, or even fucking starfield did these environments as well. no game comes close to star citizen when it comes to the flight simulation and atmosphere approaches. i say this as a giant space nerd who has played ALOT of space simulatros. but its so sad that the frames are absolute DOGSHIT when you approach a station or city and it just kills the experience everytime.
>>738885193simdadsthe fact that they're hauling the same cargo on the same route again and again for a pittance that'll be swept away soon for whatever reason (bugs, reset, economy change, new OP ship, whatever) doesn't matter to them, they've already added star citizen to the same part of the mind that stores political party or football team
is data running (literally just cargo but as a number on a screen instead of a physical box in the game world) still not inand have they fixed the herald so it's comfy like advertised instead of uncomfy
>>738885193You know the same type of person that spends all day on /vt/, spamming how much they love women that would never remember their names and leave them on read? The same type of people that will "drop a hundo" to get their name read on stream?Yeah, it's basically the same thing. Partly due to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, partly due to a lack of productive/creative hobbies.
its a comfy life. and yes this screencap is from reddit. im too lazy to attach my joystick mounts and take a an actual picture, currently playing fps games.
>>738884431I'm new here, could you drop the archive link so I can be a proper member of /v/ next time? Thank you kindly.
>>738886645its comfy tho
>>738885193Whales who spent more than 1k on a video game.It's the "2 more weeks trust me" of video games.
>>738885193the people who still play scam citizen right now are boomers, the same kind that are still spending money on second life.
>>738883280Redditors who were told providing sources was "spoonfeeding" dislike links. >>738885193People who like space and autistic bullshit detail that other space games like Starfield get bitched about for omitting, probably.>bad rapThis may surprise you, but discourse on /v/ does not represent public opinion.
>>738883378We'll reach 2030 and the game STILL won't come out
>>738886645I commend the simdads. They veg out trading and making number go up, me n the boys hang out in high traffic trade lanes waiting for them with quantum snare. They drop out and try to run (they always do) and just when they think they got away, the quantum dampener goes up, and we are already intercepting them and lighting up their engines with distortion and lasers. We blast open their cargo doors or docking collars, board them, and sometimes they try to fight, but most times they remain in their flight seat frozen in terror, knowing they dumped all their money into the jolly fortune sitting in their cargo hold. We blast them, then offload all their good loot, and leave them a little chump change. If they didn't disconnect, we rez them, repair their ship, and send them on their way, limping off like a wounded animal as we share merry laughs and cheers each other. If they refuse to leave, well... we let the cannons roar and sing them a song of sorrow. Ahhhhh...! A pirates life is good, matey.
>>738886158Yes it is you retard.How much money you spend on something is completely relative to what you're getting from it. Nobody is going to say 4500 dollars is a lot if you're talking about a big purchase like a car or bills you need to live over a decade. However anyone in their right mind would agree that 4500 dollars for a single video game is a fucking ridiculous amount. And why would time even matter? I bought a game 10 years ago for 70 dollars, should I expect that price to multiply by over sixty times just because time passed?
>>738890385That is cheaper than one of the three same rifle scopes I own, that entire sum of money for star citizen is the smallest I have spent on anything I have been interested in. I set off 2x the value in fireworks yearly.
>>738886158Anon this is the equivalent of being subbed to world of warcraft for 25 entire years without a single pause
>>738887976That's just asking for somebody to fuck up all those rolls.
>>738885193Back in 2014 or so I threw $45 bucks at it because it seemed cool and thought it wouldn't take too long to come out. A little after that I got Elite Dangerous to tide me over. It's been over a decade. I still play elite and the last time I touched SC it was a mess.So to answer your question, anyone who likes space sims.
>>738891350>Back in 2014 or so I threw $45 bucks at it because it seemed cool and thought it wouldn't take too long to come outYou fucking RETARD
>>738886645>>738886645 >imagine your dad doing cargo missions>meanwhile>me travels the astral winds with selfmade magical space ship to anywhere I wish>has a perfect waifu>is marked by the space bolice>in war with the Vaygr empire, the combine from half life, the ONI from halo, the borg from Startrek>has no shame in lucid dreams fantasies>nuns desperately trying to put some demon clothing on me>star citizen still in betawhy is everything so wrong?
>>738890906why the fuck are you spending over 9000 dollars a year on fireworks
>>738885193i used to watch a streamer that would play it sometimes and go into a big long spiel about how it's totally not a scam every time. This was almost 10 years ago.
>StarCitizen.com/refundsCan someone help me? The page just leads to a 404.
>>738883043Stockholm syndrome>>738883410
>>738883378No shit, they're making money hand over fist just ""working"" on the game forever, why would they ever actually finish it?
I fell for scam citizen back when it was announced in 2012 when I was a much younger and dumber manand wasted $1000 on various ships and yet I've never played the game no even feel like it.How do you go about selling digital items like this on eBay without getting reverse scammed? Is it even possible for game/digital items to be sold on ebay or am I holding a bag?
>>738892157Because they extremely fun and my family all enjoys watching them.
>>738883043>2012: Star Citizen looks like the future of games.>2026: Still in alpha. Looks like the distant past.
>>738883043Hasnt this scam going on for 2 decades, how come nobody got arrested
>You will keep hold of your blueprints, and any item or vehicle that is entitled to your account and shown in the 'My Hangar' page on the Roberts Space Industries website.According to this there will not be a need for 'refunds'
>>738883043Truly the most loyal project to the Jewish Cause
You would imagine more people would want this to succeed just to show major publishers that it's possible.
>>738883043billions later>barely functional netcode>burrito eating animation were he eats the wrapper>thousand dollar jpegs>carebear dads whine to devs about getting pirate grief'd
>>738883043>get wiped, no refundscome on, of course they'll keep your account info,if you BOUGHT something, as in paid for it with IRL money, you will get that, no matter which version the game is at.That said,THIS SHIT IS STILL IN ALPHA!????? HUHI know people throw "scamcitizen" around a lot, but holy shit it's obvious they have no intention of releasing this game, ever.Being in a permanent "early alpha" is the perfect excuse they can use to always discredit any criticism, as it's always "unfinished, under development and subject to change"
>The year is 2016>The game is bare bones and barely functional, but the devs insist a few more rounds of updates will fix major issues>The year is 2020>The game is bare bones and barely functional, but the devs insist a few more rounds of updates will fix major issues>The year is 2024>The game is bare bones and barely functional, but the devs insist a few more rounds of updates will fix major issues>The year is 2026>The game is bare bones and barely functional, but the devs insist a few more rounds of updates will fix major issues>Oh and also it's going to be released soon pinky promise guysI pop in to see what's going on in this never ending shitshow once a year or so and the biggest improvements over the past few years have been in the netcode and stability. The act of actually playing the game is always a struggle.
>>738885193I've played it, like 2 days at mostit was too broken for me to enjoy it, but the city, interiors, ship interiors and flying/dogfighting was impressive.I backed it in kickstarter, and I feel thoroughly betrayed. Despite it being partially cool, I have no way of justifying a game that's been in development this long and still hasn't delivered on their promises despite earning SO MUCH MORE than what they ever asked for.It's absolutely criminal and I genuinely believe there would be cause for legal action.
>>738897298I genuinely thought that, after ignoring it for TEN YEARS, it would have at least made it to beta.Man, it's like they were waiting for AI to come finish their game for them before AI even existed.
>>738897298i do the same and i never get past the starting planet as soon as i leave the little apartment and see literally every single NPC glitching the fuck out wildly i just>mfw fell for it and uninstall again.They can't even make convincing backdrops, much less add anything to do in them.
>>738897696I tried it last year springNever had any NPC:s glitching out but I could not finish even ONE delivery mission without it bugging out and not working.Literally hours of trying, and eventually had my ship glitch out and explode while parked outside a drop outpost.Of all the complaints I have about this game, NPC:s were not it. They are pretty soulless and static however.
After 15 years of game development I don't know if the game is meant to be an MMO where everyone shares the same server like EVE, sharded like WoW, or it's just a singleplayer game where you can see (but not interact with) other players around quest hubs.
